MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – Young law students work hard, sacrifice, save and borrow to meet the financial demands of law school.

In at least one case, those tuition dollars have allegedly been paying for drinks and expensive dinners for a law school administrator.

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John LaTorre, 56, who until recently was the chief financial officer at the private Barry University School of Law in Miami Shores, Florida, has been arrested for felony grand theft in the second degree, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

He allegedly used a work credit card to run up approximately $50,000 worth of charges for drinks at Hooters, restaurant meals for friends and personal utility bills.

According to the report:

A witness told authorities that LaTorre used the American Express corporate card “excessively and made unauthorized transactions” from February 2014 through June 2015, according to the arrest affidavit.

The affidavit also said LaTorre wrote checks to himself.

After he heard his Miranda rights, LaTorre admitted “he was aware he made personal transactions on the university’s corporate account,” the affidavit said.

AbovetheLaw.com noted that LaTorre was hired by the university in January 2014, which means, “This man only waited one month before he allegedly began to bamboozle the law school out of about a year and a half’s worth of its hard-earned student loan dollars.”